. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. mers,said George, and I dont care now how soon our French friends comealong. Fred scanned the expanse of ice with his field-glass, but the growingdarkness impeded his vision; he could see nothing of their rivals, andas all hands were heartily weary, they proceeded to get supper and pre-pare for sleep. The dogs were fed by their drivers, and aided by thealcohol lamp the party was soon provided for as liberally as circumstanceswould allow. Soon as supper was over they crawled into their bags, andslept soundly till early in the morning. Fred was t
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. mers,said George, and I dont care now how soon our French friends comealong. Fred scanned the expanse of ice with his field-glass, but the growingdarkness impeded his vision; he could see nothing of their rivals, andas all hands were heartily weary, they proceeded to get supper and pre-pare for sleep. The dogs were fed by their drivers, and aided by thealcohol lamp the party was soon provided for as liberally as circumstanceswould allow. Soon as supper was over they crawled into their bags, andslept soundly till early in the morning. Fred was the first to rise, and immediately on getting out of the tenthe looked to see if the flags were where they had been left. Both wereunharmed, and when satisfied on this point the young man took his glass,and climbed the hill to ascertain what had become of the party from theGambetta. They were at the edge of the rough ice that had given the Americansso much trouble the day before, and were just starting in among the hum- EXPLORING THE COUNTRY. 215. mocks to make their way to the shore. Evidently they were ignorant ofthe existence of the lane which had been discovered from the hill-top thedav before, and were in the same error that had befallen the Doctor andhimself. Without a moments delay he descended the hill, and went outamong the rough ice, to put theFrenchmen in the proper way. Ina little while they were in the rightroad and safe on land; they pitched ^ \xjltheir tent about three hundred yards v- ^- -• ;i_ Y^from that of the Americans, not fromany spirit of unfriendliness, but inorder to keep the dogs from party from the Gambetta gra-ciously accepted their defeat in notbeing first on land, but promised tobe ahead of the Americans the nexttime anything of the kind was un-dertaken. IN CAMP. It seemed that they were notable to get over the smooth ice until after sunset, and the latter part oftheir ride across it had been done rather slowly, for fear of accidents
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